Evening Star Newspaper, December 11, 1928, Page 27

‘BOLTERS FACING SENTE DISEPLIE Democratic and . Republican Leaders Declared Marked for Punishment. With electoral and popular votes counted, and the immediate excitement of election day a thing of the past, poli- ticians and party leaders are promptly taking stock of the state of affairs that | will come into being when President Herbert Hoover has his first Congress on his hands. On paper, it is a safely controlled Republican Congress. That is certainly so in the House of Rep- resentatives, but less of an assured thing in the Senate. Even though there may be seven or eight more straightout Republicans in the Senate of the Seventy-first Congress than there are in the expiring Seventieth Congress, the White . House will still have to reckon with the Progressive bloc. Senator Norris of Nebraska, who was an Al Smith Republican in the presidential campaign, is the acknowl- edged- leader of the bloc. If Norris can hold together on con- troversial occasions & group eonsisting of himself, La Follette and Blaine of Wisconsin, Howell of Nebraska, Norbeck and McMaster of South Dakota, Frazier and Nye of North Dakota, Shipstead and Schall of Minnesota, Brookhart of Towa, Couzens of Michigan, Johnson of California, Dill of Washington and Wheeler of Montana—a company of 15—the Nebraskan could throw forked lightning into Senate proceedings when- ever he pleased. It is not at all likely that he could marshal a phalanx con- taining all of these Senators. But the Republican majority will not e so large that it could universally depend upon putting through Hoover programs re- gardless of Norris and the Progressive bloc. The latter “vould always possess a certain “nuisance value.” Hostile Attitude Threatens. Long before the raskan essays to make trouble for the regular G. O. P. organization in the Senata—if he has any such intentions—he will probably find himself on the defensive. ~Already there are angry murmurings that Sen- or Norris’ action in bolting the Hoover d Curtis ticket calls for drastic puni- e action. The Republicans have had experience of that kind. They “dis- ciplined’ ’a group of Northwestern Sen- ators a couple of years ago for high treason to the party program, though, en the present Senate was “organ- iz2d,” the offenders were taken back into the fold, and even rewarded with coveted committee assignments. If it furns out that the Republicans in 1929 ¢an “organize” the Senate without help from the Progressives, it is now in the ¢ards that Norris in particular may be made to feel the party lash. His pun- fihment would take the form of with- gzwll of the judiciary committee irmanship. The Nebraskan pre- ferred that blue-ribbon last year to the ¢hairmanship of the agriculture com- mittee, which is relinquished to Senator McNary of n. Use of the big stick will not be con- fined to the Republican side of ‘the Senate aisle. The Democrats ‘have some grudges to wipe -out, tpo. The author of .the chief grudge which ithe | minority party has to aves is 8-, for Fumifold M. Simmons’who' jed) North Carolina out of the Democratic ranks on November 6 almost wholly by dint of his personal influence in the Tarheel State. As ranking minority member of the powerful finance com- ittee of the Senate, Simmons holds one of the choicest committee honors &t the disposal of the Democratic cau- cus. Whenever the party “organizes” the upper house, the seniority rule 'ouldm advance é}fimgns to the chair- D now y_Senator Reed Qmmt. Republican, of Utah.. 34 3 Robinson Faces Opposition. . As Senator Joe T. Robinson of Ar- Ransas, defeated candi President, is Democratic leader of the Senate, there is inclination at the very top of the minority high command in that body to “give Simmons what's <oming to_him,” s & confrere bluntly Puts it. With the exceptioh of Heflin of Alabama, wi position to Smith ¥hile open- and’ avowed, -was not mili- tantly active Jike Simmons’ hostility, the veteran (Nowth Carolinian is the only Senate Democrat who bolted the national ticket. The Republicans dis- ¢iplined their untuly Northwestern Pro- gressives for far less treasonable con- @uct than Simmons was guilty of in the Ppresidential campaign. There is thus a precendgnt, on other side of the ¢hamber, for imposing condign punish- ment on the ranking -finance commit- tee Democrat. Heflin has no commit- teeships important enough ' to deprive him of, or he, too, in all probability, Would feel the caucus lash. It has hugg ;zver :um before. oice of a Republican . floor. leader in the Senate will cause the majority Senators a good deal of heart-searching, | Senator George H. Moses of New Hamp- | shire, would,be the logical choice. 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The * New Hampshire Senator said Hoover ‘would get “at least” 409 electoral votes. That was only 35 below what he actually did get. ‘Whether he becomes official Repub- lican leader or not, Moses would always stand out in the Senate as an adminis- tration spokesman par excellence. He was one of the first members of the Old Guard to come cut for Hoover, and Hoover conferred with him regularly during the pre-Kansas City campaign. Overtures were made to the New Hampshire statesman to take the job of Hoover manager which eventually fell to the lot of Dr.° Work. Nevertheless there was no G. O. P. wheelhorse on whom Hoover. relied more than on Moses in the days when high politics was played in order to beat into the ploughshares of delegate-votes the swords of popular sentiment which everywhere were brandished in Hoover's favor. (Copyright, 1928.) Alluring Styles in light —interpreting the ne mode. and tulle. 1336 Connecticut Ave. N.W. Dupont Circle Bldg. 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